Given the impending closure of our Neuchâtel office – we have our big closing party on Thursday afternoon, although a few teams will still have people in the office until the end of August – there are a lot of former (and soon-to-be-former) Autodeskers starting to look for jobs in the region. Most were offered jobs in either Barcelona or the new Dublin office, but – given the salary differential to work in these locations and the currently booming Swiss economy, which has around 2.5% unemployment nationwide – the vast majority have chosen to accept their termination offers and stay local. Some will hopefully find jobs in the Neuchâtel region, but many will have to spread their nets further, whether to Bern, Fribourg or Lausanne (which are a tolerable commute away) or to Geneva or Zurich (which I’d say are not).
There are other options, though…
On Saturday I went to the opening of a new microbrewery in our area. And when I say “our area”, it’s 550m from my…